Online Encyclopedia: African American History, Organizations

An Online Reference Guide to African American History

Quintard Taylor

Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History

University of Washington, Seattle

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The following are short descriptions of individuals, places and events which have contributed to the shaping of African American history. These encyclopedia entries serve as a starting point for much more inclusive descriptions and discussions that appear in other sources. For additional information please consult the print or website sources cited in the entry.

Entry Title	Entry Type
100 Black Men of America, Inc.	Organizations
32nd and 33rd WAACS Headquarters Companies (World War II)	Organizations
369th Infantry Regiment “Harlem Hellfighters”	Organizations
761st Tank Battalion (1942-45)	Organizations
African Blood Brotherhood (1919-1924)	Organizations
African Company / African Grove Theatre	Organizations
Afro-American Council (1898-1907)	Organizations
Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR)	Organizations
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.	Organizations
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.	Organizations
Alvin Ailey Dance Theater	Organizations
American Colonization Society (1816-1964)	Organizations
American Negro Academy (1897-1924)	Organizations
American Negro Theatre (1940 - mid 1950's)	Organizations
Anita Bush Players	Organizations
Atlanta Negro Voters League	Organizations
Birmingham Black Barons	Organizations
Black and Tan Republicans	Organizations
Black Panther Party	Organizations
BlackPast.org (2007-- )	Organizations
Blackstone Rangers/ Black P. Stone Nation/El Rukns (c. 1957--c. 2000)	Organizations
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (1925–1978)	Organizations
Buffalo Soldiers in Vermont (1909-1913)	Organizations
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (1865-1872)	Organizations
Chicago Defender (1905- )	Organizations
Civil Rights Congress (1946-1956)	Organizations
Colored Refugee Relief Board (1879-1880)	Organizations
Congress of Racial Equality (1942)	Organizations
Congressional Black Caucus (1971-- )	Organizations
Cotton Club of Harlem (1923- )	Organizations
Council on African Affairs (1942-1955)	Organizations
Deacons for Defense and Justice	Organizations
Def Jam Records (1984- )	Organizations
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.	Organizations
Ebony Magazine	Organizations
Female Anti-Slavery Society, Salem, Massachusetts (1832-1866)	Organizations
Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry (1863-1865)	Organizations
Fisk Jubilee Singers	Organizations
Friends of Negro Freedom (1920-1930)	Organizations
Harlem Globetrotters (1926- )	Organizations
Historically Black Colleges and Universities of Atlanta	Organizations
Homer G. Phillips Hospital (1937-1979)	Organizations
Homestead Grays (1912-1950)	Organizations
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Local 8 (1913-1928?)	Organizations
Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc.	Organizations
Knights of Peter Claver (1909- )	Organizations
Last Poets, The (1968 - )	Organizations
League of Struggle for Negro Rights (1930-1936)	Organizations
Lord Dunmore’s Ethiopian Regiment	Organizations
Lowndes County Freedom Organization	Organizations

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